Dangerous defaults... oldest attack still works

Thomas Cameron thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Wed Jun 8 20:11:08 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 22:03 +0200, Andy Pieters wrote:
> Hi again
> 
> Is Fedora Core aware that the oldest attack known to Unix still works?  I mean 
> why don't they put a default to ulimit instead of unilimted?
> 
> Does fork bomb ring a bell?

This has been beaten to death time after time on this list.  Please read
the archives before posting this kind of claptrap.

Thomas




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